N.Z. CRUISERS
RETURNING TO AUCKLAND [ Per Pross Association. ] WELLINGTON, Nov. 25. After a stay or seven days at Wellington, two cruisers of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy departed to-day on their return to th» Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, from which they have been absent several weeks on the southern cruise. The Leander left port at 8.40 a.m. and the Achilles at 4.45 p.m. . On her way up the east coast tomorrow morning the Achilles, which was docked recently at Auckland for annual refit, will carry out her halfyearly full-power steaming trial, an evolution which will last about four hours. With her six water-tube boilers under steam the Achilles will work up to her full power, at which she will steam for two hours.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 281, 26 November 1937, Page 8
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